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Popular Mac App Bartender's New Owner Has Burnt Years of Good-Will With a Lack of Transparency


An anonymous reader shares a report: Popular app Bartender was quietly bought, and a shady certificate replacement, insertion of invasive telemetry, and a lack of transparent responses by the new owners has shaken confidence in the Mac community. Menu bar organization tool Bartender has been around ...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Popular app Bartender was quietly bought, and a shady certificate replacement, insertion of invasive telemetry, and a lack of transparent responses by the new owners has shaken confidence in the Mac community. CoreCode, the developer of MacUpdater, did a great deal of research on the new owners and the app situation prior to posting the warning. Research performed before the warning pointed out that blog entries on the Bartender website shifted to heavily search engine optimized content.

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